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peal out

peal out verb: to ring loudly.

Verb

peal out (third-person singular simple present peals out, present participle pealing out, simple past and past participle pealed out)

  1. (intransitive) To ring loudly.
  2. (transitive) To cause a bell to ring loudly.
    • and lending their clear and joyous voices to the wild chorus of the vintage-song that their elders were pealing out;1838, Julia Pardoe, The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Volume 3, page 310
    • Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC

Forms of peal out

third-person singular presentpeals out
present participlepealing out
past participlepealed out
pastpealed out

Questions about peal out

What does peal out mean?
Peal out means to ring loudly.
What part of speech is peal out?
Peal out is a verb.
What is the past tense of peal out?
The past tense of peal out is pealed out.

Words near peal out in the dictionary

  1. peaky blinders
  2. peakyish
  3. peakèd
  4. peal
  5. peal of bells
  6. peal out
  7. Peale
  8. Peale's dolphin
  9. Peale's falcon
  10. Peale's falcons
  11. pealed

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